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The character 各 is structurally composed of the component 夂, often interpreted as a foot, placed above 口, meaning mouth, a configuration that originally denoted the act of arrival or coming. Its early semantic value was "to arrive", but this usage gradually faded as the character was employed in classical texts as a distributive pronoun, shifting to convey the meaning "each" or "every". In contemporary Chinese, 各 solely functions with this distributive sense, and its original compositional logic is no longer semantically relevant to its modern application.
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我们各有各的想法。
各种水果都很新鲜。
这些问题各有不同的答案。
同学们各自回到了座位上。
请各位代表举手投票。
两国在各个方面加强合作。
各位乘客，请保管好各自物品。
各国文化虽有差异，但应互相尊重。